Pink Lemonade Experiment

ust imagine drinking a nice cold Minute Maid Pink Lemonade on a hot day, or a cold Red Powerade after a long hard practice. The cold refreshing drink rushes through your body and quenches your thirst. However, do you know what you are actually drinking, and how much of that drink is contaminated with dye? In this experiment, with the use of a spectrophotometer, the amount of concentrated dye in three drinks will be tested. First, the dye itself will be examined to see what the optimal wavelength and absorbance will be when created in a serial solution. Red Dye 40 was the prime object that will be studied in this lab because it is one of the most common dyes in every day drinks. Before performing any experiment though, it is important to understand